This article reviews cultural beliefs at schools surrounding healthy eating habits, since they govern food policies for school lunch programs instead of scientific guidelines established by the Costa Rican Ministry of ...

This article reviews how the general thinking developed during the 18th Century Enlightenment served as today´s basis for stigmatizing the participation of women in the sciences and constructing gender stereotypes. The ...

This article analyzes the resolution of student conflicts in a public high school of the Costa Rican Ministry of Education – the Liceo de Paríso in the province of Cartago. The focus lies on how the administrative staff ...

This article discusses the use of humor as a learning tool not only in university classrooms, but also, as an innovative way of improving academic administrative settings. Humor can create a better work environment, improve ...

This article is the conclusion of a research project analyzing the legal requirements pertaining to Costa Rica´s educational administrative system in light of modern demands and guidelines for educational administrators ...

The Guidance discipline and the schools’ supervision, both of themfocused on prevention as the key to anticipate the development of personal and social problems. The main objective of this study is to explore strategies ...

This article corresponds to the conceptual advances of research “ bioaprendientes academic communities : emergency self-organizing in the context of higher education “ , which currently is brewing as a doctoral thesis at ...

This article summarizes the results of a descriptive, quantitative study which addrees continuing education needs of persons who have graduated from the University of Costa Rica Education program with a major in guidance ...

An management assessment was made of 3 Mode 1 public high schools belonging to the Northern Educational Region Circuit 6 in the Northern Region of Costa Rica in 2013. The general objectives were to assess and propose ...

This article is an excerpt from a research project on developing an ethics, esthetics and citizenship management project in high schools from Western Regional Office 3, during the 2013 schoolyear. Participating high schools ...

This article summarizes the results of a descriptive, quantitative study which addrees continuing education needs of persons who have graduated from the University of Costa Rica Education program with a major in guidance ...

This article proposes, firstly, the challenges faced by the Costa Rican Management of Education by the Information and Communications Technology (ICT); and the Society of Information and Knowledge (SIK). Subsequently, ...

This paper has the purpose of raising a reflection regarding f the conditions that lead to those responsible for the families to the incorporation of the children to the first link in the system of formal education, initial ...

The article summarizes the management of the National Project of Mobile Technology that has been implemented in pilot form by the Omar Dengo Foundation in three public schools in Costa Rica, contemplate the different stages ...

The purpose of this research is essential to analyze the management decision making process at General Viejo Technical High School, located in Perez Zeledon, San Jose Province, Costa Rica. This is a descriptive study with ...

This article refers the results of the research about the program assessment by competences, implemented by the Ministry of public education in the technical education in the Professional Technical School in San Sebastian, ...

This article is a modern proposal for the management of student conflicts, based on the research of qualitative type whose title was “Analysis of the perception of the student conflicts in public schools in Costa Rica”. ...